I used to be really into rebelling, trying to figure out how I could get away with everything maximum perpendicular to the grain. I wanted to do what nobody else was doing. I wanted to break all the rules of entertainment.
It might sound like an old man thing, but I didn’t find that to be the way to get what I wanted.
I thought I would be liberated to get what I truly wanted by doing something different, but different becomes a trap. When we’re trying to be different, we’re missing the opportunities of being the same. We’re handcuffed to the opposite of the norm.
It’s much more helpful to our mission to handcuff ourselves to the mission — to our intention. Then, we don’t even examine what is the norm and what’s avante garde. We look for what works best.